Re: ... poor poor Rusty ...

[Tom Leveckis <leveckis@ici.net>]

Hey Steve.....relax......just making argument for argument sake.....
and yes.....all a '86 Mustang needs to to do the 140-150mph is
a good tuneup.....

If Mustang owners were as fanatical about upgrading their
cars the way people are here, there'd be more than a few
going 180mph......

I myself prefer a Quattro to a Mustang, that's why I am part of
this list....but according to the stories on this list, Audis are the
undefeated......or maybe we don't hear about the rest

Tom

Buchholz, Steven wrote:

> Hey Tom ... if you don't like the heat stay out of the kitchen!  This
> is
> the quattro list after all ... you've gotta expect the church lady's
> superiority dance every once in a while!  I don't know how much people
>
> were "bad mouthing" the Rustang so much, although I must say that the
> experience I cited was a stock urQ (which I chose used over a new 5
> liter BTW) and I paid nowhere near "twice" the cost of a new 'stang.
> Hey, it was my choice ... feel free to choose for yourself, no matter
> what anyone else says.  How much are those mid '80s 'stangs selling
> for
> now?  I'd figure I could trade my '83 urQ for at least 2 of 'em today!
>
> I'd like to see what you can do to Rusty for half the cost of a WG
> spring and an EPROM that'll put you anything more than even farther
> behind!  Then after we're done there, we can go up to the Sierra and
> try
> again on the snow!
>
> Why is the Frod using 28 year old technology anyway?  Because the
> "enthusiasts" didn't cotton to the company's attempts to update the
> design!  Whatever happened to the Probe anyway?
>
> Hey, I've driven my brother-in-law's '98 TransAm with a 6 speed ...
> yeee-haaaw!  I haven't had that kind of fun in a car for some time;
> and
> my BIL absolutely loves it.  I don't think that it is anywhere near as
>
> practical a car as a quattro ... and that sucker is over $30K as well.
>
> Frankly, it seems to me that car can easily bite someone who was
> playing
> around with it yet didn't know how to handle the oversteer; he's got a
>
> 14 year old son too ...
>
> I'm sorry for the tirade ... hey, I'm pretty accepting of almost any
> marque, especially ones from the good ol' USofA, and I've got a friend
>
> with a T-bird SC which is a pretty nice car too.  What's wrong with
> proclaiming one's personal victories, or presenting factual
> comparative
> data anyway?
>
> ... hey did I tell you the one about the Volvo turbo that couldn't
> keep
> up with my stock urQ either off the line or in the following
> cloverleaf
> ... or the supercharged Buick that tried to take me now that I've got
> the boost mods in place ... :)
>
> One last thing ... in all three of the above mentioned instances, I
> was
> NOT the person who decided that I was going to get around them!  I was
>
> in the lane I wanted to be in, and each one of them decided to take
> the
> chance that they could beat me ... and frankly I was figuring that I
> was
> going to lose; but hey, I'm always up for the challenge ... :)
>
> Steve Buchholz
> San Jose, CA (USA)
> > ----------
> >
> > It gets tiring to hear all you quattroholics keep bad mouthing
> > Mustangs......lest we remeber:
> >
> >  - the original MSRP of a Mustang GT was half of a Quattro....
> >
> >  - the 302 is a 28 year old design.......
> >
> >  - gimme a week and 1/2 the $$ you spend on your Q's, and I
> > would make a Mustang dust your Q's off the line and down the strech
> >
> > Oh yeah....the same hold true for a Z28 and a Trans Am as well....
> >
> I can't remember anyone in a Z28 or TA trying to take me ... perhaps
> they've heard ... :)
> ... just kidding of course!